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The Illinois Treasurer is boasting about success of Illinois’ new retirement program. His numbers actually show it’s a failure.
Walk down the streets in Brighton Park, you can see it for yourself – sliced wires hanging out at the bases of light poles. We found a few in such condition – pulled, broken, clipped.”
Why are they doing it?
“Obviously to be the dark to; do what they want to do – whether it’s driving through the neighborhood trying to shoot people, graffiti, or do other things of that nature,” Lopez said.
“As soon as we can fix it with CDOT, the lights are out the very next day,” he said.
CBS talked to people who live and work
There was much celebration in Springfield two weeks ago after legislators passed a pension consolidation bill that its backers say will help put downstate fire and police municipal pensions on a firmer financial footing.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker called the legislation a “huge bipartisan step” toward “alleviating the enormous property tax burden in downstate and suburban communities.” Pritzker is at least two-thirds right — the vote was bipartisan and it was a step.
But huge? The facts don’t support that claim.
What’s been overlooked is that teaching deep understanding to elementary students requires that teachers have that understanding themselves. Studies consistently show many don’t.
Research also shows that, compared with other college students, future elementary teachers are especially prone to math anxiety — apprehension about doing math that’s so severe it interferes with actually doing it. That anxiety remains once they are in classrooms, and studies show that students learn less math from a math-anxious
Far South Side Ald. Anthony Beale, 9th, called on Lightfoot last week to delay a vote on the 2020 budget due to concerns over $163 million in ambulance reimbursement payments she’s relying on as a key part of her spending plan for Chicago government.
On Monday, Lightfoot emailed Beale a response saying a delay would be “reckless and irresponsible.” Then she questioned the veteran alderman’s grasp of her proposal, saying his “predictions and statements about the proposed budget … reflect a basic
“Consider this: China’s de minimis level is a mere $8. That means any company shipping a product to China valued at more than $8 must pay a duty. But there’s no reciprocity; a Chinese good priced as high as $799 can enter the U.S. duty-free.”
Update: Police are now saying the whole story is unfounded and was made up.
Lawmakers during the fall veto session sent to Gov. J.B. Pritzker legislation that would make it easier for unions to recruit members and harder for employees to know their rights under Janus. Public employers — mostly governments — would be required to provide the names, addresses and contact information of their employees, including personal email addresses and cellphone numbers on file, directly to union bargaining units. If Pritzker signs the bill, he will demonstrate once again who actually runs Illinois state government. It’s not his administration. It’s not the department heads. It’s
“I cannot tell you how many places I go to where people say, ‘give me a loan, that’s the money lady, can you write me a check?’” Conyears-Ervin said. “People truly associate me with money … I’ve had people, when I walk in the room, they say, ‘Money, money, money — money.’”
A new report released by Pew Charitable Trusts found that the state’s income growth was 49th in the nation over the past decade, at an annualized rate of 1.1 percent. Illinois remained in the bottom ten for the first half of 2019, with a growth rate of 2 percent.
The full study by Pew is linked here.
At least 19 representatives of the current 118-member Illinois House were not chosen by voters when they first were seated, according to lawmakers’ biographical information on Ballotpedia. In the Illinois Senate, nearly a quarter of the 59-member chamber—14 senators—is filled by people who were appointed, not elected.
Millions of dollars are flowing into campus renovations, financial aid and student programs aimed at attracting, shoring up and retaining black students.
Alabama is attracting many Illinoisans because parts of the state are booming in jobs, investment and population. More than 29,000 Illinoisans have moved to Alabama since 2010, according to U.S. Census data. In contrast, just 15,000 Alabamans moved to Illinois over that same time period. Illinois was the 2nd-highest net supplier of residents to Alabama over the period.
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